“He who pays the piper, calls the tune.” According to opensecrets.org, Bruce Poliquin’s campaign has received a mere 1 percent of his campaign funds from individual contributions of less than $200. Jared Golden has received 26 percent of his funds from such contributions. That confirms what we already know. Golden risked his life for the […]
James Richter
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Working poor will suffer
The verdict on the Republican plan to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act is out. The Congressional Budget Office agrees with the Kaiser Family Foundation and other nonpartisan public health analyses that the Republican plan would cause millions of Americans, and tens of thousands of Mainers, to lose health insurance in its very first […]
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An appeal to Sen. Collins
Sen. Susan Collins presents herself as an advocate of good government. In 2009, she voted against the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) partly because she had problems with how it was enacted. But the policy has worked pretty well. Millions of Americans now have health insurance who didn’t have it before and, according to the Agency […]
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J. Weiss: Dodging climate change reality
James Richter’s excellent guest column (July 26) argued that Republican candidates should face climate-change reality because cutting emissions is economically beneficial. An analysis last week of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative demonstrated that charging for carbon emissions helped the economy and created tens of thousands of jobs in just a few years. That optimistic news […]
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GOP candidates should face reality of climate change
In 2012, Mitt Romney and almost all the other Republican candidates for president raised doubts about the causes and even the existence of global warming, and argued that the government should do nothing to alleviate the problem without further research. This was strange. Only a few years earlier, Romney, along with Newt Gingrich, John McCain […]